Steam is a good system. Not many places allow you to buy a game and download it whenever you want, anywhere you want, for as long as you want. Most places give you 1-3 years and after that you ahve to buy it again.

Steam also doesnt need to be on to play games, offline mode helps Which i use often to cut back on lag.

And auto-updates is so nice.

Steam mega sales 3-4 times a year also attract a lot of customers. And theirweekly/weekend/ monthly sales are huge bonus.

Dont see why so many hate steam. Been with them for a loooong time and not once had any issue.

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Well
Unfortunately even in Offline Mode Steam is Required to be Running in the Backround
So only the Time at which it will send the Data is altered to whenever you go Online again

Also I said this before
Steam is an Great and Easy Automatic System
Nobody is doubting that.
Its very autonomus helping you with almost everything.
Unfortunately this is exactly what people are concerned about mate

Because to help you with everything it also checks an immense amount of Data as I postet earlier in this Thread already *gg*

And here is that point of Steam receiving all of this Data on you.
Anticheat means it has insight to Data and Processes running on your Computer including websites and programms you run due to your Interner Browser being checked for anticheat purposes when you run it.
Auto Update also means that its going through your data regularily to see if something is not up to date
and so on .....

So well what you say is largely right.
But exactly this is the huge problem behind Steam :P
People are not saying its unpractical or not working well.
They say its Dangerous and Spying on you.
And the fact that they can help you this good is actually quite the proof of this being true *gg*

Greetz
ps well which by the way doesnt change that I support the motion to get any Game on Steam as long as it is not Steam enforced (only playable over Steam) ^^
And Kon already confirmed that the Game will stay playable without Steam if you dont want Steam.
So Steam will be optional and thus its fine with me :P

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I bought a game years ago, it forced me to use steam, I no longer play that or any other game that requires steam, don't like it, will never like it, tried it a few times throughout the years. If I buy a game I bought it, I should be able to install and play without an internet connection, for those games that are not dependant on internet of course....So for me if a game requires steam, I dont buy it.